Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 2002, 9:01 PM CDT for Stafford County, Kansas. It was in force for 44 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 7, 2002, 9:01 PM CDT (02:01 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 2002, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Stafford County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 9:30 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Stafford, KS |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 113 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 512 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -210 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1278 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 351 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 498 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KDDC 080201 SVRDDC KSC185-080245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 901 PM CDT TUE MAY 7 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN STAFFORD COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 945 PM CDT * AT 901 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTH OF NEOLA...OR ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF STAFFORD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED RURAL STAFFORD COUNTY AT 920 PM CDT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... DAMAGING HAIL THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS, DAMAGING WIND GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR, VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING, LAT...LON 3804 9876 3783 9870 3783 9850 3810 9849 16
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 7:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards | 44 min |
| May 7, 7:17 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Edwards, Ford | 4 hr |
| May 7, 7:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford | 31 min |
| May 7, 7:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 45 min |
| May 7, 7:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Pratt | 50 min |
| May 7, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Kiowa | 48 min |
| May 7, 8:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ford, Kiowa | 38 min |
| May 7, 8:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 53 min |
| May 7, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Kiowa | 49 min |
| May 7, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 31 min |
| May 7, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 29 min |
| May 7, 8:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Pratt | 48 min |
| May 7, 8:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Clark, Kiowa | 31 min |
| May 7, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford, Kiowa | 44 min |
| May 7, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 45 min |
| May 7, 9:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 64 min |
| May 7, 10:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 44 min |
| May 7, 10:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 30 min |
| May 7, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Kiowa, Pratt | 75 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.